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the reason jim demint isn't in the majority today is because of jim demint. but jim demint says he's okay with that. >> i'd rather have 30 republicans in the senate who believe in the principles of freedom than 60 who don't believe in anything. [ applause ] well, let -- let me make myself even clearer. i would rather have 30 marco rubios in the senate than 60 arlen specters. >> arlen specter you might remember got driven out of the senate in part by folks like demint. he went to the democratic party and became the 60th vote on obama care. so that worked out well for demint. but demint does rather this being in the minority thing so much that he wants to seven out the rest of his term in the minority. when you're a senator and you even begin talking to another employer about leaving the senate, you have to file this paper with the senate office of public records. they do that so before a big vote on, say, an energy bill that will make oil companies really rich, you can't go to a big oil company and say, hey, don't you think i'd make a good executive vice presi
the reason jim demint isn't in the majority today is because of jim demint. but jim demint says he's okay with that. >> i'd rather have 30 republicans in the senate who believe in the principles of freedom than 60 who don't believe in anything. [ applause ] well, let -- let me make myself even clearer. i would rather have 30 marco rubios in the senate than 60 arlen specters. >> arlen specter you might remember got driven out of the senate in part by folks like demint. he went to the...
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senator jim demint has met his waterloo. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> one republican senator said, i'm quoting him now, if we're able to stop obama on this, it will be his waterloo. it will break him. think about that. >> jim demint is cutting and running. john boehner is in a box. grover norquist near oblivion. karl rove benched on fox news. and the real action of barack obama has sent the republican party into total disarray. >> that's what i'm talking about. >> congressman jim clyburn of south carolina and eugene robinson on the latest republican fiasco. >>> plus, congressman chris van hollen on john boehner's latest concession on the fiscal cliff. michael eric dyson and donna gentile-o'donnell on the political fallout. howard dean on chris christie's big decision on the obama care exchange. and apple's ceo breaks big news to nbc's brian williams. >> next year, we will do one of our existing mac lines in the united states. >> tonight, a story of economic patriotism in an era of bain capital with e.j. dionne. good to have you wit
senator jim demint has met his waterloo. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> one republican senator said, i'm quoting him now, if we're able to stop obama on this, it will be his waterloo. it will break him. think about that. >> jim demint is cutting and running. john boehner is in a box. grover norquist near oblivion. karl rove benched on fox news. and the real action of barack obama has sent the republican party into total disarray. >> that's what i'm...
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this is jim demint. jim demint was re-elected senator for south carolina not this past election, 2012, but in 2010. you might remember he was the guy who had the good fortune in 2010 to be running against a young man named alvin green on the democratic side. it was not a hotly contested race. mr. demint won by 34 points. and that freed him up to spread a bunch of his own campaign cash and his own energy that year on other campaigns and other candidates that he favored. and that has been the way that jim demint has built his influence in politics. he has treated all of his time in the u.s. senate not as an opportunity to get anything passed. he has no legislative record at all. he spent his time in the senate trying to become a kingmaker, trying to make the republican party over in his own image. trying to shape other people's races. to have more conservative litmus tests for republican candidates. so jim demint was elected for the first time in '04. he was re-elected in 2010. they serve six-year terms. r
this is jim demint. jim demint was re-elected senator for south carolina not this past election, 2012, but in 2010. you might remember he was the guy who had the good fortune in 2010 to be running against a young man named alvin green on the democratic side. it was not a hotly contested race. mr. demint won by 34 points. and that freed him up to spread a bunch of his own campaign cash and his own energy that year on other campaigns and other candidates that he favored. and that has been the way...
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jim demint didn't do that. his net worth was listed at something like $65,000, which has to make him one of the poorest people in the united states senate. 10 certainly he's better off. you know, he is an activist at heart. so going back into the movement purely is good. and you know what? for political junkies, this is good too, because nothing is more fun than south carolina politics. and now we're going to have two race, 2014 and 2016 to watch, whereas with jim demint it was a forgone conclusion. >> jim demint's record in congress is not all that great, which is to say actually pretty bad. he picked some winners. ted cruz, rand paul, marco rubio, jeff flake. >> right. >> but he is also the guy that gave his personal seal of approval to crazies like christine o'donnell and sharron angle and richard mourdock and todd akin. in the end, is this a net-net win for republicans who have some amount of their sanity, a shred of it left? >> not necessarily. when they did the count of his 35 major legislative proposals,
jim demint didn't do that. his net worth was listed at something like $65,000, which has to make him one of the poorest people in the united states senate. 10 certainly he's better off. you know, he is an activist at heart. so going back into the movement purely is good. and you know what? for political junkies, this is good too, because nothing is more fun than south carolina politics. and now we're going to have two race, 2014 and 2016 to watch, whereas with jim demint it was a forgone...
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jim demint has won on that. and now that president obama has today announced that he will move forward on his own to reform as much of the immigration form as he can. today announced tomorrow in a primetime address he'll announce and prescribe the policy changes, jim demint and his group no longer have to fight to hold republicans in line. they've already done that. they've already won that fight with the republican. now what they have to do is lead republican strategy for how to fight president obama who is going to do this. and what they decided they want is a government shutdown. no blank check for amnesty. a lame duck congress has to pass legislation by three weeks from today in order to keep the government open, keep the government funded. they say the government should not be funded unless the president is also blocked from taking executive action. and they know what they're doing here in terms of this as a tactic. the last time we got a government shutdown was this time last year. it was because of jim de
jim demint has won on that. and now that president obama has today announced that he will move forward on his own to reform as much of the immigration form as he can. today announced tomorrow in a primetime address he'll announce and prescribe the policy changes, jim demint and his group no longer have to fight to hold republicans in line. they've already done that. they've already won that fight with the republican. now what they have to do is lead republican strategy for how to fight...
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frankly i think jim demint couldn't agree more. he said, i'm leaving the senate now but i'm not leaving the fight. i've decided to join the heritage foundation at a time when the conservative movement needs strong leadership in the battle of ideas. chuck, to your point. kelly, i want to go to you. in the midst, and we'll talk about the fiscal cliff in a minute, about the midst of the fiscal cliff and who's doing what, this is a huge news story, dropped on capitol hill that seemed to take everybody by surprise. what's the reaction up there. >> reporter: the pieces that are less sprying look at the fact that republicans failed to reclaim majority, that always has an influence on how much power senators think they have if they're among the minority. jim demint said he would not seek another term. at some point there was a plan for him to forecast his future. the timing of doing it right now certainly caught people by surprise. but it also is a point where it tells you that he feels comfortable that the voice of objection on some thing
frankly i think jim demint couldn't agree more. he said, i'm leaving the senate now but i'm not leaving the fight. i've decided to join the heritage foundation at a time when the conservative movement needs strong leadership in the battle of ideas. chuck, to your point. kelly, i want to go to you. in the midst, and we'll talk about the fiscal cliff in a minute, about the midst of the fiscal cliff and who's doing what, this is a huge news story, dropped on capitol hill that seemed to take...
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jim demint's seat. it says in part, quote, i want to make two things clear from the outset. number one, i will not take the appointment myself. number two, i will appoint a person who has the same philosophy of government jim demint and i share. there you go. just out this morning. maggie, i'll let you take that first. well, that is good news if you are tim scott, i assume. >> i assume. >> she mentioned jim demint in the statement and nikki haley aligning herself with the new ceo of the conservative movement. >> which she has to do. look, nikki haley now has something that we have described as goldman, right, without being a scandal. tim scott's name has been tossed around by conservatives, as we know. i have word from some people the ag as a place holder, where this ends up going is going to be extremely interesting. i think that demint is going to have some say in what ends up happening here. >> and what's intriguing here is there are so many interesting moving parts and you may care about this in a c
jim demint's seat. it says in part, quote, i want to make two things clear from the outset. number one, i will not take the appointment myself. number two, i will appoint a person who has the same philosophy of government jim demint and i share. there you go. just out this morning. maggie, i'll let you take that first. well, that is good news if you are tim scott, i assume. >> i assume. >> she mentioned jim demint in the statement and nikki haley aligning herself with the new ceo of...
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people like jim demint can't stand people like that. they feel the party has become to easy to capitulate. remember with the budget control act when democrats were screaming bloody murder and thought the president had capitulated? guess what? on the far right they thought john boehner and mitch mcconnell had capitulated and lost that negotiation. they want the party further and further to the right. what demint specializes in doing is finding candidates to primary other republicans and to try to push the party further and further to the outskirts. >> what do you think of that? >> i think there's some truth to that. what is interesting to me is that during the bush years, where were all these voices when all the spending was going on? >> he wasn't -- >> there's a certain level of disingenuousness there. you have to be careful in making these broad brush -- >> let me ask you a question. if you were back at your old job, rnc chair, you may be there again for all i know, how would you umpire this thing? would you go to demint and his crowd
people like jim demint can't stand people like that. they feel the party has become to easy to capitulate. remember with the budget control act when democrats were screaming bloody murder and thought the president had capitulated? guess what? on the far right they thought john boehner and mitch mcconnell had capitulated and lost that negotiation. they want the party further and further to the right. what demint specializes in doing is finding candidates to primary other republicans and to try...
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when a lot of people think about that story, they think about jim demint but your story says it is this duo, two guys that are younger than jim demint that have taken it and turned it away from being a think tank into a pure partisan war machine. tell us who they are and how they've done this. >> my piece focuses on michael ne. dham, 31, the ceo of heritage action. that i title is significant. he has a lieutenant, tim chapman, who is the coo. they were helped to be put in place by the chairman of the heritage foundation. a guy named saunders, a wall street banker in the '80s. when he was elected to the board in 2009, he pushed for a more aggressive approach, for heritage to take a more aggressive approach on the hill and to create a lobbying arm. by this point, michael needham had served as chief of staff to
when a lot of people think about that story, they think about jim demint but your story says it is this duo, two guys that are younger than jim demint that have taken it and turned it away from being a think tank into a pure partisan war machine. tell us who they are and how they've done this. >> my piece focuses on michael ne. dham, 31, the ceo of heritage action. that i title is significant. he has a lieutenant, tim chapman, who is the coo. they were helped to be put in place by the...
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senator jim demint, nbc's kelly o'donnell is live in colombia for us this morning. jim demint played debate moderator yesterday of sorts. >> this is a different kind of forum. here in south carolina, the people who attended said they liked it that way. that means there weren't journalists asking questions. it wasn't about bringing up a candidate's past and picking apart trying to bring in new information. it was talking about issues that mattered to conservatives, the meaning of the constitution, talking about social issues like abortion, gay marriage a little bit, also the health care law and what should be done with some of the things that are happening in the economy. it was not as much about the president as it was about the conservative values and issues that matter to these candidates. it had a really different feel. for mitt romney who is considered a bit of a longer shot in a state like south carolina, because he doesn't have a natural constituency here that perhaps rick perry would have because of his southern
senator jim demint, nbc's kelly o'donnell is live in colombia for us this morning. jim demint played debate moderator yesterday of sorts. >> this is a different kind of forum. here in south carolina, the people who attended said they liked it that way. that means there weren't journalists asking questions. it wasn't about bringing up a candidate's past and picking apart trying to bring in new information. it was talking about issues that mattered to conservatives, the meaning of the...
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people like jim demint can't stand people like that. they feel the party has become too easy to change. remember they were screaming bloody murder, the democrats and thought the president had done that and they feel john boehner had lost that negotiations and want the party further and further to the right. what demint specializes is doing is trying to push the party further and further to the out-skirts. >> what do you think? >> i think there is some truth to that. what is interesting to me, during the bush years, where were these voices when the spending was going on. there's a certain level of disingenuous there. you have to be careful of making a broad brush. >> if you were back in your old job as rmy chair and may be back there again, what would you do? would you build a logger out there to fight the -- or say, the future of the republican party is dead center conservative. not fringe, not going over. >> we're a center right party much like the country. >> i don't agree with that. the country is center right. it just voted. it just
people like jim demint can't stand people like that. they feel the party has become too easy to change. remember they were screaming bloody murder, the democrats and thought the president had done that and they feel john boehner had lost that negotiations and want the party further and further to the right. what demint specializes is doing is trying to push the party further and further to the out-skirts. >> what do you think? >> i think there is some truth to that. what is...
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it becomes less of a think tank with jim demint. they want to stay in their little bubble, reinforce their talking points, don't want to do any soul searching, don't want any new ideas and think that having jim demint at the helm helps them politically. someone very exciting jim demint is leaving and hoping he doesn't let the door hit him on the way out, he was going to be a one-term president, the president is getting ready to be inaugurated again and jim demint is packing up his office. this is a loss in many ways for him. they thinks he will be more powerful but he's going to be talking to a bunch of the same crazy wing nuts and having -- >> wait, joan. >> crazy wing nut wants to get in here. >> no. >> before you respond to that. >> please. >> let me ask you one question, though. >> yes. >> let's take a basic issue, immigration reform. do you think heritage is going to lead on imin i gration reform with jim demint at the hel snm. >> oh, i think that it has the potential to do that, but again, that leadership, that leadership you'
it becomes less of a think tank with jim demint. they want to stay in their little bubble, reinforce their talking points, don't want to do any soul searching, don't want any new ideas and think that having jim demint at the helm helps them politically. someone very exciting jim demint is leaving and hoping he doesn't let the door hit him on the way out, he was going to be a one-term president, the president is getting ready to be inaugurated again and jim demint is packing up his office. this...
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the 1 was senator jim demint. why is senator jim demint against this? is it some cockamamie jim demint tea party fetishistic states' rights idea about gold bullion or something? no, not in this case. it wasn't anything like this. jim demint's reasoning for voting against this was that veterans don't deserve it. >> i cannot support this tax credit because i do not believe the government should privilege one american over another when it comes to work. >> yeah, those greedy veterans, wanting all this special treatment. greedy veterans expecting everything to be handed to them. yeah, happy veterans day, senator demint. i would salute you, but the way i want you is not something that's allowed on television. it almost makes me want to sit on my hands. the veterans bill, aside from the blistering astonishment that is jim demint, is an example of things sort of secretly actually getting done in d.c. right now. here's another example. yesterday the fcc announced that the nation's biggest cable companies will start offering high-speed internet service to low-in
the 1 was senator jim demint. why is senator jim demint against this? is it some cockamamie jim demint tea party fetishistic states' rights idea about gold bullion or something? no, not in this case. it wasn't anything like this. jim demint's reasoning for voting against this was that veterans don't deserve it. >> i cannot support this tax credit because i do not believe the government should privilege one american over another when it comes to work. >> yeah, those greedy veterans,...
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jim demint has not had an original idea himself. he's all about platitudes. >> take a listen. >> either way, my expectation is, my hope is that that's no longer their number one priority and i'm hoping that once the election season is over that that spirit of cooperation comes for to the fore. >> are we seeing a change? are we moving in that direction, in your opinion, governor? >> we're clearly moving in that direction, reverend, whether it can go all the way, that the country needs -- i don't know. and it's really going to be incumbent on the president. as the movement start, the president has got to take hold and say to these republicans, okay, let's talk seriously. what do you need to make this deal work? what do you need to get this deal in a position that we'll get this country back on track and cause our economy to get back on track? the good news is, if we can do a deal on the budget by compromising and coming together, then we can go after immigration and infrastructure and energy and education. the things that are still on
jim demint has not had an original idea himself. he's all about platitudes. >> take a listen. >> either way, my expectation is, my hope is that that's no longer their number one priority and i'm hoping that once the election season is over that that spirit of cooperation comes for to the fore. >> are we seeing a change? are we moving in that direction, in your opinion, governor? >> we're clearly moving in that direction, reverend, whether it can go all the way, that the...
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apparently, though, jim demint, though, is in charge. at least he wants to seem like he is in charge. and jim demint has now rolled o out the new argument for why it is still a good idea to shut down the government as a way of killing obama care. jim demint says republicans are justified in going there and doing that. because we have never had a chance to vote in a national election, in which we got to make a choice between someone who was in favor of obama care and someone who was against obama care. obama care never had a hearing in a national election. asked by "bloomberg businessweek" if maybe the 2012 election was just that chance, senator demint responded that in 2012, quote, we did not litigate the obama care issue. yeah, you know, come to think of it, in 2012, the whole obama care issue just never really came up in the campaign. >> we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of health care by repealing and replacing obama care. >> we have to repeal obama care. >> we will roll back obama care. >> obama care! >> replace obama care! >> ge
apparently, though, jim demint, though, is in charge. at least he wants to seem like he is in charge. and jim demint has now rolled o out the new argument for why it is still a good idea to shut down the government as a way of killing obama care. jim demint says republicans are justified in going there and doing that. because we have never had a chance to vote in a national election, in which we got to make a choice between someone who was in favor of obama care and someone who was against...
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jim demint has been a thorn in the side of republicans. so whoever he puts in there needs to roll-up their sleeves and get the job done. there are some statements floating around. we'll wait and see. >> a busy day. my power panel, thank you. appreciate it. >> thanks. >>> the united nations is putting up a serious front to warn syria not to use chemical weapons on their own people. what are the options on the table? [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. i just finished a bowl of your new light chicken pot pie soup and it's so rich and creamy... is it really 100 calories? let me put you on webcan... ...lean roasted chicken... and a creamy broth mmm i can still see you. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. go ahead, mark your calendars. mmm i can still see you. it's the last day you can switch your medicare part d plan. we're ready, and we can't wait to switch. what i wanted was simple: the most value for my dollar. so, now that it's time, we're making the move to a plan that really works for us. [ male announcer ] make the swi
jim demint has been a thorn in the side of republicans. so whoever he puts in there needs to roll-up their sleeves and get the job done. there are some statements floating around. we'll wait and see. >> a busy day. my power panel, thank you. appreciate it. >> thanks. >>> the united nations is putting up a serious front to warn syria not to use chemical weapons on their own people. what are the options on the table? [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. i just finished a bowl of...
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that's what jim demint has been trying to say. if you were back at your old job, rnc chair, you may be there again for all i know, how would you repair this thing? would you go to demint and his crowd moving to the outside to sort of build their sort of logger out there to fight the establishment or would you say, wait a minute, the future is dead center conservative. it's not fringy, it's not john birch, not going over -- >> i would remind them we're a center right party very much like the country -- >> i don't agree with that. >> the country is center right. >> they just voted for obama. >> center left. >> that's another show. we'll have that conversation. but the country is center right in large measure. >> we can't have another arithmetic system. >> this is not about the math. this is about the facts and the realities on the ground. >> the facts. the numbers. >> 51% of the people identify themselves as pro-life. that's center right. >> they don't support outlawing -- >> another show. >> they don't believe in outlawing abortion
that's what jim demint has been trying to say. if you were back at your old job, rnc chair, you may be there again for all i know, how would you repair this thing? would you go to demint and his crowd moving to the outside to sort of build their sort of logger out there to fight the establishment or would you say, wait a minute, the future is dead center conservative. it's not fringy, it's not john birch, not going over -- >> i would remind them we're a center right party very much like...
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jim demint has spent his career privileging one american over another. one year ago, jim demint fought tooth and nail against last december's tax deal because of an estate tax that would apply to people worth more than $5 million. that tax will effect about 3,300 people this year. meanwhile, 900,000 of america's 22 million military veterans are unemployed. but demint says they're just a political group. his colleagues are pandering to. so jim demint is willing to fight for a tax cut effecting 3,300 super rich people, but he's not willing to support a tax cut effecting 900,000 unemployed veterans? for demint to say the val to hire heroes bill is a democratic trick is definitely un-american "psycho talk." >>> coming up, "daily show" co-creator lizz winstead talks about the sorry state of the gop. even newt is moving up. the markets never stop moving. of course, neither do i. solution? td ameritrade mobile trader. i can enter trades on the run. even futures and 4x. complex options, done. [ cellphone rings ] thank you. live streaming audio. advanced charts.
jim demint has spent his career privileging one american over another. one year ago, jim demint fought tooth and nail against last december's tax deal because of an estate tax that would apply to people worth more than $5 million. that tax will effect about 3,300 people this year. meanwhile, 900,000 of america's 22 million military veterans are unemployed. but demint says they're just a political group. his colleagues are pandering to. so jim demint is willing to fight for a tax cut effecting...
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jim demint, of course, is no longer a senator. he quit being a senator to run the heritage foundation. once he was there he decided the heritage foundation should write a big comprehensive study on why immigration reform is a terrible idea. he hired a guy whose doctoral dissertation had been about the intellectual inferiority of immigrants in the united states. imgrants do not have the same level of cognitive ability as native born americans. "no one knows whether hispanics will ever reach i.q. parity with whites but the prediction that new hispanic immigrants will have low i.g. children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against." by 2010 that same guy was posting on white nationalist websites like "alternative right" which is a full-on white power, white supremacist website posting there saying "hispanics are substantially more likely than whites to commit serious crimes." "these findings are not due to age differences or immigration violations or other statistical artifacts." he called it simply the reality of hispanic cri
jim demint, of course, is no longer a senator. he quit being a senator to run the heritage foundation. once he was there he decided the heritage foundation should write a big comprehensive study on why immigration reform is a terrible idea. he hired a guy whose doctoral dissertation had been about the intellectual inferiority of immigrants in the united states. imgrants do not have the same level of cognitive ability as native born americans. "no one knows whether hispanics will ever reach...
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. >>> jim demint goes rogue with his white house pick and lands in "psycho talk." and so far, mitt romney has stayed under the radar on the issue of race. tonight that's all over. mitt romney and his mormon faith are being called on the carpet. good to have you with us tonight, folks, thanks for watching. ultraconservatives are not buying mitt romney's claim of being a job creator. last night, sarah palin defended attacks on romney. >> governor rockiesny has claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at bain. and people are wanting to know, is there proof of that claim, and was it u.s. jobs created for united states citizens. >> it's that old reporter coming out in sarah palin, so much for sports. newt gingrich isn't stepping on the brakes either. watch this testy exchange he had with the kids on fox and friends this morning. >> there are a series of cases that don't look right, i'm saying for a guy to run for president, use his record as the basis for running, and then tell us we're not allowed to even ask about his record? to ask about the record of a presidential cand
. >>> jim demint goes rogue with his white house pick and lands in "psycho talk." and so far, mitt romney has stayed under the radar on the issue of race. tonight that's all over. mitt romney and his mormon faith are being called on the carpet. good to have you with us tonight, folks, thanks for watching. ultraconservatives are not buying mitt romney's claim of being a job creator. last night, sarah palin defended attacks on romney. >> governor rockiesny has claimed to...
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people like jim demint can't stand people like that. they feel the party has become to easy to capitulate. remember with the budget control act when democrats were screaming bloody murder and thought the president had capitulated? on the far right they thought john boehner and mitch mcconnell had capitulated and lost that negotiation. they want the party further and further to the right. what demint specializes in doing is finding candidates to primary other republicans and to try to push the party further and further to the outskirts. >> what do you think of that? >> i think there's some truth to that. what is interesting to me is during the bush years, where were all these voices when all the spending was going on? >> he wasn't -- >> there's a certain level of disingenuousness there. you have to be careful in making these broad brush -- >> let me ask you a question. if you were back at your old job, rnc chair, you may be there again for all i know, how would you repair this thing? would you go to demint and his crowd moving to the out
people like jim demint can't stand people like that. they feel the party has become to easy to capitulate. remember with the budget control act when democrats were screaming bloody murder and thought the president had capitulated? on the far right they thought john boehner and mitch mcconnell had capitulated and lost that negotiation. they want the party further and further to the right. what demint specializes in doing is finding candidates to primary other republicans and to try to push the...
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and it makes perfect sense now that jim demint is leaving. so why not fill the vacancy for south carolina's funniest favorite son? now, you may scoff at the very idea, but so did some at the idea of an idea of senator al franken and california congressman sonny bono and i take it you remember our 40th president, ronnie wilson reagan. it's not that farfetched. mr. colbert's only real trouble, he'd have to stand to the right of jim demint. joining us now is ari melber, a correspondent for "the nation" and an msnbc contributor and professor michael eric dyson from georgetown university and an msnbc political analyst. ari, if i can begin with you. why not replace one comic actor with another. >> what i love what stephen colbert does, he reminds us of the many absurdityiies we matakr granted. >> well, colbert brings star power. a go p lobbyist telling roll call that demiemint will have t star power of ben affleck. is that right. is he now the ben affleck of the tea party? another insider said demint is the ceo of conservatism. >> it's hollywood fo
and it makes perfect sense now that jim demint is leaving. so why not fill the vacancy for south carolina's funniest favorite son? now, you may scoff at the very idea, but so did some at the idea of an idea of senator al franken and california congressman sonny bono and i take it you remember our 40th president, ronnie wilson reagan. it's not that farfetched. mr. colbert's only real trouble, he'd have to stand to the right of jim demint. joining us now is ari melber, a correspondent for...
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the late tim russert once said i can't believe jim demint is a senator. he is the leader, the ramrod of all those right wing challenges. he put up ron johnson to beat mitch mcconnell because he's too liberal. he's leaving, quitting his senate seat, giving it up, to run the heritage foundation. we have other stuff coming up, but let's start with that. >> first of all, he's going to make a lot more money. ed fuelner, who is leaving, makes $1 million a year. demint has a net worth of $40,000. secondly, the leadership has tried to rein him in. they've said, you can't go out and go after these conservative republicans with really conservative republicans in primaries because you're setting us up to lose senate seats. now that he's out of there, he can become a kind of cross between grover norquist and the jim demint he always was. he can drive these hard right ideas, but he can also sponsor hard right candidates in republican primaries. i think he thinks he's going to be more important at the heritage foundation than he is in the senate. >> let me ask you abou
the late tim russert once said i can't believe jim demint is a senator. he is the leader, the ramrod of all those right wing challenges. he put up ron johnson to beat mitch mcconnell because he's too liberal. he's leaving, quitting his senate seat, giving it up, to run the heritage foundation. we have other stuff coming up, but let's start with that. >> first of all, he's going to make a lot more money. ed fuelner, who is leaving, makes $1 million a year. demint has a net worth of...
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it was a little embarrassing when they hired jim demint. what was more embarrassing, they decided to fight the prospect of immigration reform in our country by releasing a pseudo academic analysis of why immigration reform was a terrible idea. a terribly expensive, terribly bad idea to reform immigration policy in this country. turned out that under jim demint the heritage foundation had hired as a senior policy analyst to right that report, a man who's whole academic career is about ranking ethnic groups by their i.q. >> race is dinner in all sorts of ways, and probably the most important way is in i.q. decades of psycho metric testing has indicated that in at least in america, you have jews with the highest average i.q., followed by east asians. these are real differences, they're not going to go away tomorrow. >> that is the guy who jim demint hired as senior policy analyst to crunch the numbers on immigration reform. lo and behold, the heritage study finds when a guy like that crunches the numbers. it turns out that immigrants are terri
it was a little embarrassing when they hired jim demint. what was more embarrassing, they decided to fight the prospect of immigration reform in our country by releasing a pseudo academic analysis of why immigration reform was a terrible idea. a terribly expensive, terribly bad idea to reform immigration policy in this country. turned out that under jim demint the heritage foundation had hired as a senior policy analyst to right that report, a man who's whole academic career is about ranking...
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he is jim demint. the senator turned tea party power broker. but now someone is ready to take him on. the fight coming to jim demint. that's next. >>> plus, it happened again. another day, another right wing mistruth trashing the affordable care act. we bring the facts, ahead. >>> and donald rumsfeld says a, quote, trained ape would be better at foreign policy than president obama. i'll have a lot to say on this. >>> and a new development in the case of the pregnant mom who drove her kids into the ocean. does she belong in isolation or a mental hospital? stay with us. it's a growing trend in business: do more with less with less energy. hp is helping ups do just that. soon, the world's most intelligent servers, designed by hp, will give ups over twice the performance, using forty percent less energy. multiply that across over a thousand locations, and they'll provide the same benefit to the environment as over 60,000 trees. that's a trend we can all get behind. [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can
he is jim demint. the senator turned tea party power broker. but now someone is ready to take him on. the fight coming to jim demint. that's next. >>> plus, it happened again. another day, another right wing mistruth trashing the affordable care act. we bring the facts, ahead. >>> and donald rumsfeld says a, quote, trained ape would be better at foreign policy than president obama. i'll have a lot to say on this. >>> and a new development in the case of the pregnant...
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former senator jim demint. he left the senate back in january to pull strings behind the curtain running the right wing heritage foundation. he is one of the early leaders in the destroy obama care movement. you know the guy who said this about health care in 2009. >> if we're able to. so obama on this, it will be his waterloo. it will break him. >> it will break him. three years later, and look what's happening? it's breaking boehner. here's the translation. john boehner, i'm your boss. you better hold the line on this or else. joining me now are goldie taylor and ryan grim. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. >> thank you. >> pleasure. >> ryan, incredible events unfolding. how scared of jim demint is speaker boehner that he pulls his own bill? >> i mean, he clearly must not have had the votes after heritage told people to vote no. the way this works is that heritage action which is the corporate/grassroots right wing organization decides that certain votes are quote, unquote key votes. which means
former senator jim demint. he left the senate back in january to pull strings behind the curtain running the right wing heritage foundation. he is one of the early leaders in the destroy obama care movement. you know the guy who said this about health care in 2009. >> if we're able to. so obama on this, it will be his waterloo. it will break him. >> it will break him. three years later, and look what's happening? it's breaking boehner. here's the translation. john boehner, i'm your...
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but jim demint was not the thinkiest united states senator out there. previously, he had owned an advertising firm. once he got to the senate, his legislative agenda was things like sponsoring the commemorative coins reform act. it would have forced senators to pay for the printing costs of commemorative resolutions. earth shifting policy wonkery was not what jim demint was known for in the senate. he was a campaigner, tried to get other super duper conservatives elected. he backed candidates like sharon angle in nevada, those can still be seen in another galaxy today. but the heritage foundation is in the news today because under jim demint's leadership as a think tank, it is trying to kill the prospect of immigration reform. capital k, capital ill, they are trying to kill it. the heritage foundation is not supposed to be a campaigning foundation, they are supposed to deal with policy, facts, figures, and complex data sets that can't just appear to be killing immigration with straight-up politics, but use something that looks like research, something t
but jim demint was not the thinkiest united states senator out there. previously, he had owned an advertising firm. once he got to the senate, his legislative agenda was things like sponsoring the commemorative coins reform act. it would have forced senators to pay for the printing costs of commemorative resolutions. earth shifting policy wonkery was not what jim demint was known for in the senate. he was a campaigner, tried to get other super duper conservatives elected. he backed candidates...
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and jim demint. so, you know, the -- you know, the incentives are lined up such that the democrats could give money to jim demint and club for growth to do what they're doing, they certainly would figure out a way to do it. >> absolutely. goldie, would i like you to listen to david brooks of the "new york times" on the subject of the gop civil war. take a listen. >> the question now is, will the republican party have a civil war. over the nature of the party. and i think we're beginning to see rumblings of that. the problem is, to have a civil war, you actually have to have two sides. the tea party has a political movement, think tank, donor base, others want to compete in california and new york and along the east coast and illinois. they don't have a side. they have american crossroads, a pact. they have a cocktail party. >> so i guess, goldie, you can have a lot of republican-on republican violence. but does that make it a true civil war? >> you know, i have stay with ryan about this, it does not
and jim demint. so, you know, the -- you know, the incentives are lined up such that the democrats could give money to jim demint and club for growth to do what they're doing, they certainly would figure out a way to do it. >> absolutely. goldie, would i like you to listen to david brooks of the "new york times" on the subject of the gop civil war. take a listen. >> the question now is, will the republican party have a civil war. over the nature of the party. and i think...
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so is jim demint. people who are not afraid to challenge the system. >> yeah. so herman cain's short list for vp includeless the guy who wants to destroy medicare/medicaid by turning it into a voucher program and the guy who use and old southern racist term when talked about defeating president obama during the health care debate. >> if we are able to stop obama on this, it will be his waterloo. >> really? >> it will break him. >>> it will break him. >> herman cain also said woe hire newt gingrich as an adviser. maybe even chief of staff. i think the reason herman cain is surging in the polls is that he says what no one else is saying. he is so different. he names his vice presidential picks. he talks about race. he says the he will take down president obama in a foreign policy debate and his tax plan, you got admit, it's got a catchy title, 999. herman cain's ideas, in my opinion, are absolutely nuts but right now, that doesn't matter. he understands the media, the media culture and what he says can mean something to a reporter and to a talk show host and he i
so is jim demint. people who are not afraid to challenge the system. >> yeah. so herman cain's short list for vp includeless the guy who wants to destroy medicare/medicaid by turning it into a voucher program and the guy who use and old southern racist term when talked about defeating president obama during the health care debate. >> if we are able to stop obama on this, it will be his waterloo. >> really? >> it will break him. >>> it will break him. >>...